Living inside the system is not consent to the system. Comparing doctors to cops is ridiculous. Cops entire reason for existence is to defend the system.
Sure, and what do you call a doctor without an employer?
Either rich or unemployed.
If they don't come from money then they aren't going to work for themselves until late in their career. Just like good trades people. Having toys doesn't mean shit if your existence is still predicated on employment.
Then the term definitely doesn't apply to the "professional" class in the US. You generally aren't hanging your own shingle until late in your career or if you came from money. Doctors are very much reliant on employers here and most of the West.
If you look at the polling on the universal policies then you'll see they very much do. It's hard not to be aware that you would starve if you didn't have a job.
Record levels of military spending while the administration is openly blowing up the procurement process to grab fistfuls of cash from the procurement of stuff we neither want nor need.
This is one of many areas we have a false choice in. We can have party A spend 901 Billion or Party B spend 902 Billion. There is an out and good people are working on bringing up candidates outside the old system. But it will take time.
I think that's easier than self investigation though. We can always fend that off by calling it whataboutism. In fact that's exactly how we handle calling out Chinese and Iranian abuses. Israel quite simply has a loyal voting block in the US that our politicians are afraid of. They don't run the country or any of that conspiracy crap but they are incredibly active in defending Israel.
Put the litmus test away. PPP is a real thing and pretending it isn't is not going to earn you any friends. A two bedroom condo in the US is easily 600,000 USD. The problem isn't the people trying to get off the rental treadmill it's the people making prices that high so we need high wages to live. In other words, the elite in the wealthiest countries are fucking everyone over, not just Panamanian farmers.
The far more troubling problem to me is the division of wealth inside the countries. If we tackled that then there would also be a lot more money for the workers at the foreign owned factory in Hungary. You are right that the national income isn't the problem, but you're missing that the wealth gap in the wealthiest countries feeds the gap between countries and regions too.
That's because they left giant loopholes in those laws. Like allowing the ultra wealthy to remove their money from the country. They got that money because of the country, they don't get to then fuck off and take that wealth out of the country. They're free to leave, the majority of their wealth is not.
And poor nobles can cry me a river, sell the assets. Take the stocks too. The entire idea of shareholders running the company needs to die anyways.
We've seen them voluntarily do homeless stints. It's just not the same thing when you know you're going back to your mansion in a few weeks. Just fucking tax their wealth bracket out of existence.
What even the what? Are you sure you replied to the right comment?